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broad ovate obtuse, deeply cordate, the auricles slightly united, deeply 

 laciniate, the teeth tailed, warted and ciliate ; peduncle with obscure glands 

 on the extremity placed within the auricle of each of the bracteoles, but none 

 on the calyx. Flowers large, thick, massive, pale yellow, and without purple 

 spots, campanulate when fully expanded ; corolla a little exceeding the 

 bracteoles, tomentose on the outer surface ; calyx very large, with five broad 

 ovate deltoid teeth, quite glabrous. Fruit sub-rotund, acuminate, 3-celled, 

 and tips of valves reflexed (f. 2), contained within the accrescent bracteoles ; 

 seeds large, partly adhering together and with an imperfect rusty or greenish 

 brown fuzz below the woolly floss. 



Habitat. Specimens from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Africa, Malaya, Mexico 

 etc. It is the ' Porto Eico ' cotton of Bohr. Probably originated an Peru ' 

 in Mexico. 



Citation of Specimens. The type specimen of this species, as figured Speci- 

 and described by Todaro, was, it would appear, raised at Palermo from seed mens ' 

 said to have been procured from Mexico. 



In the Herbarium of Florence there are two specimens of presumably 

 this plant, named by Todaro himself, as G. herbaceum, var. microcarpum. 

 The plant was said to have been grown at Palermo, but Parlatore corrected 

 the determination into G. arboreum. It might once more be changed, 

 however, into a wild condition of G. microcarpum if not into G. Palmerii ; 

 it is certainly not G. arboreum. Then, in the Naples Herbarium there are 

 three or four more specimens of a slightly larger plant with the leaves 

 sometimes 5-lobed but otherwise identical with the specimens in Florence. 

 In fact they might with safety be spoken of as cultivated manifestations of 

 the selfsame plant. These specimens Todaro, however, named G. micro- 

 carpum, presumably having by then considered it desirable to separate the 

 plant in question (and very necessarily so) from G. herbaceum. It is thus 

 probable that these samples in the Naples Herbarium are the types of the 

 species subsequently figured and described by Todaro (' Hort. Bot. Pan.' 1876, 

 vol. i., p. 63 t. 14). 



In the Herbarium of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, there are a few Abund- 

 plants that undoubtedly belong to Todaro's species. These are as follows : 

 From EAST CENTRAL AFRICA, Zambesi Expedition (collected by Sir J. Kirk, 

 who calls it Pernambuco cotton, and says it was found cultivated by the 

 Makonde people on the Rovuma, 80 miles inland) ; Nyassaland (contributed 

 by Sir Harry H. Johnston, found at an altitude of from 2,500 to 3,500 feet) ; 

 Portuguese Nyassaland (collected by Rev. W. P. Johnson) ; Dr. Busse n. 184, 

 from East Africa (seeds almost quite naked and free) ; Austro-Africa, 

 H. A. Junod, n. 658 ; from N. W. AFRICA : Angola (collected by Welw., n. 

 5,229) ; from N. AFRICA : Canaries, Teneriffe, 1846 (ex herb. J. Gay) ; Socotra 

 (collected by Professor B. Balfour, n. 707 of 1880) ; Bahr-el-Ghazal (collected 

 by Mr. H. Brown from the Experimental Farm Wan, where, it is called 

 mit afifi Cotton ; from MALAYA : Philippines (Vidal, n. 2,183, said to be wild 

 and called Gapas). There is no specimen from the New World in any 

 Herbarium examined by me. 



This plant is not represented in the Sloane Herbarium of the British 

 Museum a fact that may perhaps argue for a recent introduction into 



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